You could put in a client definition with the saveset D:\folder and create
> a directive for the client with saveset All that skips D:\folder. This
> doesn't cure the problem but it will highlight that only that part of the
> backup is failing.
> Note the savegroup notification is saying that the server failed, the
> parts of the backup that were successful are still usable.
> Does networker on the client run as a local administrator?


Thanks for the tips everyone.  This turns out to have been two
separate issues that manifested in two consecutive nights with similar
abortions:

Firewall timeouts were shorted so I shortened the servers TCPv4
keepalive through sysctl and the second night, media verification
failure.

-Eugene

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